Car underbody illumination: penalty for violation

Many car owners try to allocate somehowYour car, using different tuning elements. Some resort to standard methods, and others - to non-standard ones. One of these options is to install the car's underbody lights. But does not this contradict the legislation?

Is there a penalty for lighting the car's bottom?

Tuning lovers are quite rightare interested in this issue. To answer it, it is necessary to consider the legislative provisions of the legislation. There you will not find any prohibitions on the use of light bulbs or other possible lighting devices on the bottom of the car. Given that all this is not directly provided for in the law, does this mean that the installation of the lighting of the bottom is legal and will not entail fines? It is impossible to answer this question unequivocally.

If you look at one side, then the traffic police officerthere is no reason to call the driver to account, since this responsibility is not foreseen by any article. But there were cases when the owners of cars with this design received a fine. The illumination of the bottom of the car can be interpreted ambiguously by some legislative provisions, because of which there can be disputes from which the inspector of the GIDBB may come out victorious, as has already happened with many drivers.

Note that in Russia this type of tuning is notis popular, so fines for such violations are very rarely used. Given this, it can be concluded that the DPS officers do not have clear instructions to punish drivers for this kind of tuning. As for the owners of cars with the illumination of the bottom of the car, fines, as they say in the forums, had to be paid, but such "lucky" ones.

How can you interpret the violation?

There are some articles in the Administrative Code that inspectors of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate can use against a car owner with a similar tuning.

Article 12.5 of the Administrative Code indicate violations associated with the self-installation of the backlight and its use when driving a vehicle. In particular, it is indicated that the inspector should assess whether the backlight matches the safety order or permissible changes in the vehicle's design. Also, a fine can occur if the light goes out of the car's bottom and violates the requirements of the List of faults. The inspector of the traffic police can regard this lighting as a special device for delivering a light signal. In this case, the driver will be fined. Moreover, punishments are also provided for people who installed this equipment. In this case, a whole investigation can be carried out.

It is impossible to say for sure that the backlightbottoms are prohibited, but with a huge desire, the traffic police inspector will find an excuse to collect a fine. If article 12.5 is considered in great detail, then there is a description of the punishment for offenders: confiscation of illumination and seizure of rights for a period of 1.5 to 2 years. Such punishment can be applied in the event that the inspector will regard the bulbs on the bottom of the car as special devices for the supply of light signals. It is also possible in case the backlight is used on a moving car. If the car is in place with the backlight on, there is no violation.

Once again we will point out that for the illumination of the bottom of the carfines are superimposed very rarely, and indeed drivers with cars are not deprived of such tuning. But there were cases when drivers received small fines in the amount of 500 rubles because of making unacceptable changes to the car's design.

Deprivation of rights

Article 12.5 also indicated the maximum possible violations, in which the driver may lose his rights with the confiscation of the car's lighting. In the case of using the installed light signals in motion, the driver may be deprived of the rights for a period of 1.5 to 2 years. But this article is more concerned with violators who install signaling devices that remind police of cars.

Grounds for a fine

For the illumination of the bottom of the car, a fine is more possible than deprivation of rights. This installation is almost never treated as a special alarm device. Inspectors of the traffic police interpret lights as:

devices made in the design of the car is illegal;
violation of the requirements of the law on the installation of light devices of inadequate color and mode of operation.

Indeed, to make changes in the designthe vehicle can not be used, and a violation for the arrangement of the light devices takes place. Given the fact that the backlight is not installed by the manufacturer, it can be the composition of the offense. Hence, we can conclude that on the roads of Russia, the illumination of the bottom of the car is prohibited.

Installation conditions

There are several ways to illuminate the bottom:

with the help of neon lamps;
with the help of LED tape.

The latter method is the most popular, becauseLEDs on the tape are more economical and effective compared to neon. Given the fact that inspectors have the right and the ability to recover from the driver a fine, you need to adhere to the following requirements when implementing this tuning:

Install the lighting devices so that they do not extend beyond the front and rear of the machine.
Use only the allowed colors (red, yellow, orange colors are allowed).
The brightness of the backlight should not "hit the eyes" of other drivers.
The light emitted must be directed exclusively downwards.
In front, you can set the backlight orange, yellow, and the back - red, yellow, orange.
Do not use the backlight, which is used by the signal installations of the special services!

What do car owners say about backlighting?

On forums such questions are discussed fairlyoften. Most car owners, who have lighting devices on the bottom, say that they had no problems with the traffic police inspectors. Even after stopping the car with the backlight on, inspectors after checking documents released the drivers, not a word speaking about lighting equipment.

However, there are also such inspectors whotry to regard the highlight as a constructive change in the car. Of course, for this a fine is supposed, although after long disputes the drivers successfully escaped responsibility in the form of a fine. For this you need to be savvy in such matters and not be afraid to communicate with the inspectors. But even here the inspector can be right in the event that the backlight will go out of the car's bottom, have too bright red or blue.

Many drivers do not recommend usingillumination during the movement of the car, so as not to attract unnecessary attention of inspectors. In a standing car, there is no violation in the case of a lighting device. And in general, it all depends on the inspector. If he wants to, he can find any reason to draw up a protocol and collect a fine from the driver, and the lighting of the bottom can simply become a good excuse.

Conclusion

Now you know if the bottom light is enabledcar. Most car owners are inclined to consider this a violation, and they are, in general, right, because making constructive changes to the car is a violation. Even the drivers who changed the usual lamps in the headlights to xenon lights are also penalized in the form of fines, because the car's design does not provide for the use of xenon. What can we say about the illumination of the bottom, which is almost never installed at the manufacturer's factory!

Successful implementations of highlighting

However, if you are not afraid of fines or think,that you can prove your rightness to the inspector, then safely install these elements of tuning. After all, in the photo the illumination of the bottom of the car looks simply amazing.

That's all. We can assume that the issue with the use of lighting devices on the bottom of transport is exhausted.